Gamespot

2018-02-17T17:08:00.000000000-08:00
We teamed up with RESPAWN Products to give away three of their Respawn-205 series gaming chairs, with the winners' choice of Blue, Green, Red, or Gray. (List Price: $224.99, scroll down below to enter.)Competition ends Monday, February 19 at 11:00AM PT. Three (3) winners will be chosen. Entry is ...

2018-02-17T12:20:00.000000000-08:00
If you haven't had a chance to jump in on Blizzard's team shooter Overwatch, now might be the perfect time to do so. This weekend, Overwatch is free to play on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.To make the deal even sweeter, the base title and the game of the year edition are 50% off on Steam, the PlayStatio...

2018-02-17T11:59:00.000000000-08:00
Rainbow Six Siege's third year of DLC is about to kick off, introducing a new, limited-time co-op event and two new Operators. We'll have more on Outbreak--the elaborate co-operative missions set during an extraterrestrial invasion--soon, but for now, let's look at how Siege's new characters will...

2018-02-17T09:58:00.000000000-08:00
The quirky crossover costumes continue in Monster Hunter: World, but unlike the previous Horizon Zero Dawn armor--which was an understandable fit for Monster Hunter--this new Street Fighter V set is a bit of a surprise. Have you always wanted to hunt monsters as Ryu? Your wish has been granted. T...

2018-02-17T08:44:00.000000000-08:00
As the first stage of Overwatch League drew to a close, it represented a major milestone for Blizzard's big gamble on esports. The London Spitfire faced some setbacks during the final day of Stage 1, but after coming back from an earlier defeat against their rivals the New York Excelsior, they we...

2018-02-17T08:37:00.000000000-08:00
As it currently stands, Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch League--a hybrid of both esports/traditional sports systems--is already a solid success. With the closing of Stage 1--the first of five phases leading up to the Season 1 playoffs later this year--the London Spitfire came out on top agains...

2018-02-16T16:37:00.000000000-08:00
Pokemon Go's second Community Day is quickly approaching, and like the inaugural event held last month, it'll give players a brief chance to capture a rare Pokemon with an exclusive move. Developer Niantic had previously revealed that the Pokemon in question this time will be Dratini, and now the...

2018-02-16T16:17:00.000000000-08:00
Devil May Cry HD Collection is launching soon on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and today it got a new trailer. But DMC fans still have something to look forward to before it is released: later this month, you can check out the first Devil May Cry game on PC for free through Twitch Prime.Capcom announced...

2018-02-16T16:14:00.000000000-08:00
In the past, it seemed like every superhero movie would have a tie-in game--often of questionable quality. That era seems to be over, as superheroes now frequently have their own game series independent of films, and this week's Black Panther release will pass without an accompanying game. Howeve...

2018-02-16T16:10:00.000000000-08:00
Sea of Thieves is one of the most anticipated games of 2018, and it aims to deliver players an open-world, swashbuckling pirate experience. However, the game will sadly not feature a tie-in to one of the most well-known pirate franchises.In response to a fan's question, developer Rare confirmed t...

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Joystiq

2018-02-17T11:30:00.000000000-05:00
This week Hot Wheels unveiled Augmoto, an AR-enhanced course that makes the brand's track races a lot more video game-like. However, in the other direction it's also introducing Rocket League Rivals, a remote control vehicle kit that brings the popular console game's madcap soccer-but-with-cars a...

2018-02-17T08:45:00.000000000-05:00
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.
Welcome to the weekend. Once you return from Wakanda, you can check out SpaceX's next rocket launch and revisit our Apple HomePod review.

2018-02-16T19:14:00.000000000-05:00
In its latest bid for relevance, Atari is glomming onto the cryptocurrency craze. The company is hoping to bolster its gambling business in Europe with Atari Token, according to Bloomberg. "Our aim is to take strategic positions with a limited cash risk, in order to best create value with the ass...

2018-02-16T09:00:00.000000000-05:00
Hot Wheels may be known for little die-cast cars, but celebrating its 50th birthday this year doesn't mean it's stuck in the past. The brand's already given us AI-controlled racers and cars on virtual courses, but the one thing that's gone largely untouched is its signature plastic track. This ye...

2018-02-16T06:41:00.000000000-05:00
Friday morning. Almost as good as Saturday. Today, we're talking discounted PlayStation VR headsets (down to $200), our thoughts on Marvel's Black Panther and a very convoluted way to upgrade your old B&amp;O speakers for the modern age.

2018-02-15T14:06:00.000000000-05:00
Sony thinks its holiday PlayStation VR discounts were a success, so it's bringing them back now that it wants to clear some end-of-winter stock. The company is running a new promo that drops PSVR prices by $100 across the board between February 18th and March 3rd. The sweetest deal by far is th...

2018-02-15T13:44:00.000000000-05:00
The early '90s made a bad habit out of terrible action games cashing in on brands and celebrities. One of the latter was Shaq Fu, which has become a punchline in Worst Games of All Time lists for franchising out NBA star Shaquille O'Neal into a bad fighter filled with a confusing mish-mash of myt...

2018-02-15T12:15:00.000000000-05:00
HTC launched a monthly subscription for VR apps last spring, allowing users to choose up to five titles per month for $6.99/£6.99. As of March 22nd though, the price of that Viveport plan is going up. The company announced today that beginning next month, a Viveport subscription will cost $8.99/£...

2018-02-15T09:00:00.000000000-05:00
Silent Streets was an odd mix of walking simulator and AR-based Victorian detective story, but clearly the mix of genres was a hit. Funbakers, the studio behind the game, has already cooked up a sequel, Silent Streets: The Mocking Bird, that'll see players return to the murky world of Snowport. T...

2018-02-15T06:00:00.000000000-05:00
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.
Notice anything new in your browser this morning? We'll explain Chrome's latest trick, plus the problem with video-game records and where you shouldn't put your new HomePod.

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Giant Bomb

2017-11-20T14:00:00.000000000-08:00
When Electronic Arts revived the Star Wars: Battlefront name two years ago, it laid the groundwork for what could have been a successful new take on the series. A new trilogy of films was about to hit theaters and enthusiasm for the brand was at its highest in recent memory. Battlefront’s revival...

2017-11-13T20:37:00.000000000-08:00
At first blush, the premise of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle sounds like a twisted kitbash that would spring out of some bad, late-night message board conversation, only to be written off as "too weird." "It'll never happen," they'd say, as they pivot back to pitching their "Mega Man but with W...

2017-11-06T18:00:00.000000000-08:00
Despite the change in era, this still feels like a Call of Duty game.It's been a decade, almost to the day, since Call of Duty rewrote the book on multiplayer first-person shooters with the release of Modern Warfare. The game's fast action and propulsive sense of progression with interesting new ...

2017-10-26T06:00:00.000000000-07:00
At this year’s E3, Nintendo surprised many with a Super Mario Odyssey trailer that seemed insane even by Mario standards. He inhabited frogs by throwing a ghost hat at them. He strolled through a city alongside human figures with realistic proportions. Pauline from Donkey Kong is suddenly back, a...

2017-10-21T09:00:00.000000000-07:00
The best part of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor gets even better in the sequel, Shadow of War. The first game's dynamic "Nemesis" AI system had you fighting against an endless succession of named enemies who taunted you, remembered your exploits, and grew stronger on the backs of their victories ...

2017-10-17T15:06:00.000000000-07:00
After over 15 years of bad South Park games, fans of the show were understandably skeptical when The Stick of Truth was released. We had heard about Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s involvement throughout the development process, but we’d been burned too many times to get optimistic. To the surprise ...

2017-10-12T16:45:00.000000000-07:00
Cuphead’s original reveal in an E3 2014 Xbox sizzle reel of indie games was only seconds long, but that was enough to sell me on its potential. Take one look at the game in motion, and you’ll see why. Cuphead combines brutal, precision platforming action with an exceptionally well realized artist...

2017-09-28T18:30:00.000000000-07:00
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is the first fighting game that captivated me. The combination of the colors, the over-the-top hyper combos, the fact that I could have Sentinel and Servbot on a team together had me making a beeline to the cabinet first thing when I walked through my local arcade’s doors. I r...

2017-09-20T15:05:00.000000000-07:00
When you first boot up Kingsway, you immediately “get it.” From the startup sounds, to the launch menu in the task bar, to the grey-bordered windows, it’s immediately apparent that the game is a love letter to a time long-forgotten. More specifically, a time about 22 years ago.Kingsway is an RPG ...

2017-09-18T17:45:00.000000000-07:00
The list of large and small ways Destiny 2 is a streamlined, better designed, and more rewarding game than its predecessor is probably a hundred lines long. To cut to the chase, this is a game that finally makes good--sometimes a little too good--on Bungie's big idea of blending its genre-leading...

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GameInformer

2018-02-18T00:31:00.000000000+00:00
Both Bayonetta games released for Switch yesterday, and players are already finding some interesting Easter eggs.
In Bayonetta 2, scanning Amiibo onto your Switch will unlock some costumes, but also messages from Rodin, the shopkeeper. These messages break the fourth wall a bit, hinting at severa...

2018-02-17T23:45:00.000000000+00:00
After gaining a bit of hopeful traction by signing the Overwatch League's first female player, Kim "Geguri" Seyeon the Shanghai Dragons face another obstacle in their uphill battle to the top: Visas.
Unikrn reports that Seyeon and her new teammates will have to wait until sometime later in Phase ...

2018-02-17T23:21:00.000000000+00:00
Technology is cool. Technology is strange. The weird pull of watching gears turn and electric circuits fire has a strange pull for a lot of people. The strangeness of that pull has never been more apparent than when I try to describe why watching someone hook up modern consoles and a PC to a stra...

2018-02-17T22:12:00.000000000+00:00
With today's news that both Broly and Bardock are making their way to Dragon Ball FighterZ as DLC characters, I can finally ask this question without being inundated with similar results: Who do you want as DLC character in Dragon Ball FighterZ?
Leaks abound as to who the rest of the roster will ...

2018-02-17T21:15:00.000000000+00:00
WARNING: Spoilers For Uncharted 4 follow.
If you've played Uncharted 4, you were probably thrown for a bit of a loop when Uncharted 4 not only references Crash Bandicoot, but lets you play an entire level of the game in-game (whoa, that's meta). You may have thought, however, that developer Naugh...

2018-02-17T19:45:00.000000000+00:00
If Overwatch has any glaring flaws, it's the lack of pup-oriented competition. There's just not enough of it! Thankfully, Blizzard has finally taken this key criticism to heart with its new Year of the Dog Puppy Rumble.
We're honestly not quite sure what the event, which will stream on Twitch thi...

2018-02-17T19:07:00.000000000+00:00
Square Enix has dropped a trailer showcasing an upcoming update for Final Fantasy XV's Comrades multiplayer mode.
The update, which hits March 6, adds a number of new outfits for players to wear, including more hairstyles, suits, silly outfits, and plated suits of armor. New attacks, weapons, spe...

2018-02-17T17:45:00.000000000+00:00
Bandai Namco has stayed relatively silent regarding which fighters would make it into Dragon Ball FighterZ via DLC. The latest issue of V-Jump magazine, however, reveals the first two downloadable combatants: Broly and Bardock.
For those not in the know, Broly is the one of the legendary Super Sa...

2018-02-17T17:00:00.000000000+00:00
After its Stage One finals the Overwatch League is on hiatus for a bit, but that doesn't mean there aren't some fun events to watch. One of them is even an Overwatch event!
Today marks the start of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Starladder &amp; i-League StarSeries Season 4, so tune in for ...

2018-02-17T01:00:00.000000000+00:00
For the wondrous weekend ahead, some of us are wrapping up our time with Monster Hunter: World to move onto grander adventures such as dying over and over in Celeste, getting stuck in a backlog limbo, showing questionable amounts of love for Rainbow Six Siege, or watching the Olympics and Black P...

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N4G

2018-02-18T04:18:52.036000000+00:00
Touch Tap Play writes: "Way back in 2008, at the dawn of the touchscreen gaming era, a game called Fieldrunners arrived on iPhone and blew our heads off. [...] Approximately a billion mobile tower defence games followed in its wake, getting more sophisticated as smartphones grew more powerful unt...

2018-02-18T01:33:52.888000000+00:00
BlindDog Communications and Game Music Town have announced today a strategic partnership to provide a multifaceted service to satisfy a wider range of indie developers needs.

2018-02-17T22:48:49.205000000+00:00
Pure PlayStation: Knockout League, the Super Punch-Out inspired boxing game from Grab Games, has now got a confirmed release date for Canada. The fun brawler was recently released in North America, but the rest of the world is still (in)patiently waiting for it to hit regional PlayStation Stores.

2018-02-17T22:48:49.201000000+00:00
Pure PlayStation: Jason is most lovely guy in the world. His mild-mannered reporting is always a joy to read, and his equally mild and soothing voice is always a joy to hear in his video reviews. Today hes different. Hes pissed. Bigly.

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PCWorld

2018-02-17T13:30:00.000000000-08:00
It’s been over a year since I last played Rainbow Six Siege for any real length of time, and I regret it. Earlier this week I went to play the upcoming Rainbow Six Siege – Year Three content ($30 season pass on Amazon) at Ubisoft’s offices in San Francisco, and to be honest I’d be hard-pressed to...

2018-02-16T16:39:00.000000000-08:00
If you can't get your shiny new Ryzen APU on the motherboard you bought last year, don't panic: AMD officials have confirmed that they will indeed ship you an older, dual-core chip to help you make it work.The problem relates to AMD's new Ryzen APU and how it interacts with older stocks of mother...

2018-02-16T13:50:00.000000000-08:00
Intel customers and shareholders are angry about Meltdown and Spectre—angry enough that a total of 32 suits have been filed against the company regarding the two vulnerabilities.In its annual report, filed Friday, Intel disclosed that 30 customer class-action suits have been filed against the com...

2018-02-16T12:03:00.000000000-08:00
Microsoft's Cortana has added support for the IFTTT conditional platform plus a number of smart services, both helping bring Cortana more in line with competing services from Amazon and Google Home.

2018-02-16T12:00:00.000000000-08:00
The biggest video game news this week is that Valve updated the format for Steam Wishlists—not because I care about Wishlists, but simply because Valve actually updated the Steam interface. Could this be the start of that large-scale overhaul we’ve heard has been coming for like, two years now? O...

2018-02-16T04:00:00.000000000-08:00
VPN Unlimited in brief:P2P allowed: YesNumber of servers: 400+Business location: United States and UkraineNumber of country locations: 51Cost: $49.99KeepSolid’s VPN Unlimited is interesting. It’s a typical VPN service, to be sure, but the company appears to see it as one service in a larger toolk...

2018-02-16T03:00:00.000000000-08:00
If you're asking yourself, "should I buy a Ryzen APU?" for a new budget gaming PC, the short answer is yes, probably.That's because for building a ground-up, entry-level gaming machine, the Ryzen APU is the best game in town, and possibly the only game for DIY builders, in the face of wallet-bust...

2018-02-15T16:30:00.000000000-08:00
One of the many reasons the internet is so powerful is because it gives nearly anyone the ability to share their voice and knowledge with the rest of the world. A particularly popular way to make yourself known is to set up a website.These days many services, such as WordPress or Blogger, offer w...